Free Will and the Rebel Angels in Medieval Philosophy

This book studies medieval theories of free will, including explanations of how angels - that is, ideal agents - can choose evil.

Sommario

Part I. Free Will: 1. Free will with and without Aristotle; 2. The psychological turn and the rise of intellectualism; 3. Voluntarism and the condemnation of intellectualism; 4. Intermediary theories and strict intellectualism; 5. Refinements and radicalizations; Part II. Whence Evil?: 6. Does evil have a cause?; 7. The will as the cause of evil; Part III. Angelic Sin: 8. Intellectualist accounts of the angelic fall; 9. Voluntarist and intermediary accounts of the angelic fall; 10. Necessary (and free?) obstinacy.

Info autore

Tobias Hoffmann is Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He has edited and co-edited several anthologies, including A Companion to Angels in Medieval Philosophy (2012) and Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics (with Jörn Müller and Matthias Perkams, Cambridge, 2013).

Riassunto

This is the first book in English investigating the medieval debate about free will, one of the central themes in medieval philosophy. It sheds new light particularly on how medieval thinkers dealt with the most difficult test case for free will: the possibility of angels – i.e., ideal agents – choosing evil.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tobias Hoffmann, Tobias (The Catholic University of Ameri Hoffmann, Hoffmann Tobias
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781316608838
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60883-8
• Pagine: 306
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: dall'antichità ai giorni nostri; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Medioevo; History, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, CE period up to c 1500, Ethics & moral philosophy, Archaeology, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Ethics and moral philosophy, Religious ethics, Religious and theocratic ideologies, History and Archaeology, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Religious & theocratic ideologies